Drainboard for clothes wringers



Feb. 3, 1942. N. L. ETTEN 2,272,113

DRAINBOARD FOR CLOTHES WRINGERS Filed July 4, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet l .mnum m.

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2 Claims. (01. 68-264) I a vided by the pressurefadjustment handle [5 on the top of the frame. Pressure reset for the: .wringeriis accomplished by means of apressure reset handle Ili'on the end of the wringer. The wringer has a pair of rolls; the lower rollbeing designated by the numeral I1 and the upper roll This invention relates to clothes wringers. for domestic washingimachines, and particularlyto new type of drain board for such wringers.

In the hand crank-actuatedwringersof the past it was common practice to have feed boards across the face of the wringer frames adjacent the bite of the rolls to assist in properly feeding garments into the wringer. These feed boards, were bow-shaped with the curved center section higher or closer to the bite of the rolls. The obf bythe numeral l8.

ject of this arrangement was to spread the garments over the width of the rolls and to prevent as much as possible the bunching of garments through the center of the roll. were fairly effective and 'did' much to assist the better wringer practice of spreading the garments across the'width of the rolls.

Originally the electric motor driven washing machines were equipped with woodframe hand wringers merely adapted for power drive and such wringers carried the spreading feed boards.

Such feed boards.

Attached to the frame ofthe wringer by any conventional method is a pair of drainboards l9;

The sedrainboards have a raised upper ed'ge20, I the edge fading out in height toward the center o f thedrainboard tofprovide' a drain opening.

In the. center sectionfof [the drain basin there' is an upwardlybowed central section Zl, the

However, when special steel frame wringers were designed for power washing machines, the use of such feed boards was complicated by the steel drainboards and. "other structural difliculties, with the result that the use of such spread feed devices were abandoned and bunched or center feeding of .wringers is now common practice,

It is the particular object of this invention to provide a spread feed devicevfor wringers wherehighest part of the bowedsection being adjacent f the bite of the rolls l1 and l8,'and the lowest part being adjacentthedrain opening in .the center ofthe board. On'each side of theraised centralsection 2l--are valleys 22 and 23- which provide dual drainways for water meeting at the I drain opening at the front center of the drainboard. This structure will be well understood by l referringto Figs. 4 and b, which clearly show the cro's'ssection co'ntoursof the drain basin. On

the inside edge .ofthe dra'inboard is a flange 24 by means of which the drainboards are assembled to the'frame.ofithewringer in anyconventional manner as is wellknown in-the art.

in the conventional drainboard is shaped to acboard as it would appear on the section lines 44 of Fig. 2; and

; Fig. 5 is a sectional end elevation view of the drainboard as it would appear on the section lines 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Now referring to the drawings, I designate by the numeral It! the lower frame of a conventional wringer adapted to be mounted on the gear head drive by flange'members ll by means of bolts through thelholes' l2. This wringer has a detachable upper frame l3 and is equipped with a quick release mechanism actuated by release buttons l4. Pressure adjustment is pro- It will be'appre'ciated' that when a mass of v clothes is inserted in'the wringer as is normally. done in the center of theroll; the upturned section 2| will act 'tospreadthe garments and tend to feed the clothes in both directions, crosswise I of the wringer rolls and thereby materially assist in properly feeding the clothes in a thin section rather than bunched in the center of the rolls} It'further will be appreciated that this raised central section will have a tendency to 7 move the clothes from one side or the other and thereby utilizethe side seotionsof the wringer rather than o'nlythe center section, which ma- 7 terially assists in spreading the wear of the rolls and preventingthe common roll failure of the center of the roll being worn out and ineffective. This condition is so common that itis well-known to even the casual observer. Also, the causes v arewell-known and it-is believed that with the above explanation the function of my drainboard will be well understood and appreciated.

l-laving' thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a drain boardfora clothes wringer, a clothes spreading surface comprising an upward- 1y bowed central section of convex configuration I with its highest point adjacent the center point of the rolls and lower points adjacent the end portions of the rolls and on opposite 'sides of the high center portion, said bowed central section extending outwardly from a point adjacent the wringer rolls to a point remote from the rolls to exert a spreading action on clothes passing through the wringer a considerable distance before they reach the rolls, and raised marginal portions to define a pair of drain channels on opposite sides of the high central portion and direct drain water toward a center drain channel.

v2. In a drain board for a clothes wringer, a clothes spreading surface comprising an upwardly bowed central section having its highest point adjacent the center point of the rolls and lower points adjacent the end portions of the rolls and on opposite sides of the high center portion, raised marginal portions at each side of said central section, said raised marginal portions having their highestpoints adjacent the ends of the rolls to define a pair of drain channels on opposite sides of the high central portion, said raised marginal portions being curved toward each other and downwardly to meet in a single, narrow drain channel in the center of the drain board structure.

NICHOLAS L. ETTEN. 

